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Two Texas Fellowship Winners Headed to the Paisano Ranch [1]

5.22.09

The University of Texas, Austin, recently announced that Sarah Bird [2] and Diane Wilson are the winners of this year's Dobie Paisano Writing Fellowships [3]. Both will receive a four-month stay at Paisano, a retreat west of Austin, and a monthly stipend of five thousand dollars. The fellowships, sponsored by the University of Texas [4] and the Texas Institute of Letters [5], allow Texas writers (or writers who have written significantly about Texas) to live and work at the late J. Frank Dobie’s 254-acre ranch.

And just who, exactly, was J. Frank Dobie? He was an old-school Texan who wrote a bunch of books, including Cow People (1964) and Rattlesnakes (1965), that depicted the good life in rural Texas. But don't take my word for it; watch the well-groomed gentleman in the video below. 


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/two_texas_fellowship_winners_headed_paisano_ranch [2] https://www.pw.org/content/%5Btitle%5D_4064 [3] http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/Paisano/ [4] http://www.utexas.edu/ [5] http://texasinstituteofletters.org/